Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect

Chapter 1251 - 612: Outside Assistance_3

Back then, in the battle at Suiyang, in order to deal with Emei, he and the company people made a ten-year pact for sword casting, and the other side’s asking price was to find a non-physical Demon Statue of a crone sitting on a Black Crystal Lotus Platform.

But at that time, Chen Xuantian searched Suiyang top to bottom, and only found the altar shrine; he never found the non-physical entity enshrined on that shrine.

Later, after a round of calculations, he tracked down that this statue had apparently been handed over by Zhang Xun, as payment for forming an Array, to the Divine Sect’s Eastern Law Enforcement Venerable, the Three Immortals of the East Sea, and Wuzhong Laojun, who then carried it off overseas to Great Wilderness Mountain.

But that non-physical entity seems to have been retrieved.

"Seems" because, although to Chen Xuantian’s naked eyes the Lotus Platform altar was still utterly empty.

When he looked instead at the smooth mirror-bright White Jade surrounding him, he could clearly see, in the reflections on the six stone walls, that there was indeed something being offered on the Lotus Platform.

But it wasn’t an old crone; it was a woman—uh, not a Crystal-made Demon Statue, but flesh and blood, looking like a pregnant woman about to give birth.

Even though there was nothing visible to the naked eye, in the reflections on the six stone walls, he could see that pregnant woman sitting with her back to Chen Xuantian, trapped within the Black Lotus Crystal altar.

Right—her back to him. No matter which wall’s projection he looked from, the pregnant woman had her back to him. As if the surrounding Jade wasn’t really mirror reflection at all, but some kind of camera-projection screen.

Still, even without seeing the woman’s face, from the snakescale-like skin, the alloy exoskeleton, the mantis-style blade arms, the reverse-bending knees, the reptilian hind limbs, the scythe-shaped sharp claws on her toes, Chen Xuantian still recognized her.

It was that Yingtao.

Of course, it might be her colleague or superior; anyway, it was the same model of Wetware Dao Body as that non-physical Department infiltration investigator he’d briefly met before.

In any case, judging from this appearance, they really had completed the retrieval mission and snatched that non-physical entity back from the hands and feet of the Eastern Venerable.

But aside from the huge belly, Chen Xuantian couldn’t see where else that non-physical entity could be hidden. So in the end it was containment of the abnormal entity using her own body?

The Demon Fetus Lingxu mentioned that needed to be slain by the Breaking Dao Sword—is that the thing in Yingtao’s belly?

Then again, not necessarily...

After all, Chen Xuantian remembered that earlier a Centipede had told Huangfu Yi that the company’s Insect Queen could nurture a newborn reincarnation at the brink of death.

So maybe what’s in Yingtao’s belly is still Yingtao, and the Demon Fetus is something else altogether. He’d better study this carefully.

He wasn’t being fussy; that sword only has three uses before it kills you. If he’s not cautious, Lingxu that dog-fucked bastard might pit him to death with it...

Unfortunately, after Chen Xuantian had only watched for a short while, the skin all over his body started reddening, cracking, and charring at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if seared again and again by a branding iron, raising huge blisters; then those blisters burst one after another like boiling bubbles, bodily fluids and pus splattering everywhere, the epidermis peeling off in whole sheets like a soaked tissue, revealing bright red dermis that was instantly roasted into large scabs mixing charcoal black and ochre yellow.

Then the flesh over his whole body started rotting off with a crackling sound, muscles dissolving and liquefying, the tender lining of lips, mouth, and esophagus sloughing off like flaking plaster into a floorful of meat mush, the whole person turning into a sticky, half-melted mess plastered to the ground like an ice cream under the Sun...

Mm. This non-physical entity is radioactive.

Right, this broken piece of crap really is dangerous enough; just staying in the warehouse for a bit, the leakage from the radiation already shattered and decomposed the cells of his Wetware Dao Body at the molecular level. Skin, muscle, bone—every living tissue in his body was blasted necrotic by irradiation, his internal organs uncontrollably failing and bleeding into slurry. In the local dialect, that’s the Heavenly Person Five Decays, body fallen and Dao dissolved.

Fortunately, this Yu Zao flesh-body was something he pinched together just to ride the elevator.

So the puddle of blood mud and minced meat on the floor churned once, turned into a black spring, wrapped in black skin, topped with Black Gauze, and stood up again.

Then the Netherworld Spring opened its eyes.

This time, he could see the non-physical entity on the shrine.

"Returning Void."